Xi Cheying also felt that his side was at a disadvantage now, and Dong Xian was at an advantage, after all, Dong Xian's troops were more, and he was at the horns of the five school armies, and he had already formed a flanking attack on Xinyang, where he was located, in this case, how could Dong Xian be defeated?

Seeing her blank face, Liu Xiu smiled and asked rhetorically: "Can Che Ying know where Dong Xian's disadvantages are?" ”

Xi Cheying shook his head slowly.

Liu Xiu said meaningfully: "Dong Xian has too many troops, and too few resources!" ”

Compared with Zhang Bu, Dong Xian's sphere of influence is not large, and the only territory that is really included under Dong Xian's wings is Donghai County.

With a county to support an army of 200,000, the shortage of resources can be imagined.

But in order to protect himself, Dong Xian also had to support so many soldiers and horses.

Pang Meng's defection to Dong Xian further increased Dong Xian's troops, but at the same time, it also made Dong Xian's resources more and more strained.

Dong Xian wants to raise 200,000 soldiers and horses, but the grain and grass are already stretched, and with Pang Meng's 50,000 soldiers and horses, the grain and grass are becoming more and more insufficient.

As a result, in the battle of Taocheng, Pang Meng was defeated, and all the grain and grass in the army fell into the hands of the Han army, so that Dong Xian's current grain and grass are even more stretched.

But in this case, Dong Xian summoned the fifth school army again.

Who are the five school soldiers?

Bandit! They don't have their own territory, they don't have resources in their hands, and they rely on grabbing food and clothing.

What will the 50,000-strong army eat after they arrive in Jianyang?

What to drink?

A short period of stationing may be okay, but after a long time, when the rations of the five school troops run out, they will inevitably ask Dong Xian for food and grass.

But what Dong Xian lacks most now is food and grass, and he can't afford to give the five school army.

With no food to eat, will the army of the five schools stay in Jianyang and wait to die?

They have no loyalty to Dong Xian, and the reason why they come to help Dong Xian fight now is because of the gold that Dong Xian gave them.

When they are really about to starve to death, the Fifth School Army will not care about his Dong Xian's life or death, they will definitely evacuate Jianyang and go to other areas to continue looting.

As long as the five school troops leave, only Dong Xian of Chang Xi will be left, and his side will no longer have any worries, and he can attack Chang Xi on a large scale and defeat Dong Xian in one fell swoop.

This is the calculation in Liu Xiu's heart.

As long as Zhang Bu does not reinforce Dong Xian's grain and grass, the Fifth School Army will not be able to stay in Jianyang for a long time, and Dong Xian will be defeated in this battle.

Of course, even if Zhang Buken reinforced Dong Xian's grain and grass, Liu Xiu would block it halfway, and would never let Zhang Bu's people send the grain and grass to Dong Xian's hands.

After listening to Liu Xiu's analysis, Xi Cheying suddenly realized.

Liu Xiu said with a smile: "Fighting is not only a competition for the combat strength of the two sides and the strategy of the generals, but also a competition for the resources that the two sides can control.

The side with more resources can afford to spend it, and the side with fewer resources must try to solve the problem quickly. ”

And now, Dong Xian does not have the conditions for a quick victory, so even if the battle has not yet opened, Liu Xiu can already foresee that Dong Xian will be defeated.

Now all he needs to do is drag.

If you can delay it for one more day, the rations of the five school troops will be reduced by one, until the rations of the five school army are exhausted and they have to leave, that is when they and Dong Xian fight to the death.

Xi Cheying looked at Liu Xiu, who was happy and bamboo-in-chest, and she couldn't help but let out a long sigh.

Suddenly, she realized what was attracting Liu Xiu, the throne of the Son of Heaven may be one thing, but more importantly, the self-confidence in Liu Xiu.

The kind of self-confidence that you can strategize and have everything under control.

It is said that confident people are the most attractive, and Liu Xiu is undoubtedly confident.

Since he became emperor, many people have rebelled against him, but Liu Xiu did not become suspicious because of this, distrustful of the heroes under his command, and did not do anything like cooking rabbits and dead dogs, depriving soldiers of their rights, and killing heroes indiscriminately.

You can choose to rebel against me, but I am 100% confident that I can send troops to destroy you.

Peng Pet is one, Deng Feng is one, Su Mao and Pang Meng are also one of them.

The Han army rested in Xinyang, and camped around Xinyang, on weekdays, the soldiers practiced in the camp, and occasionally there were holidays, you could go to the city to stroll, and the days were leisurely.

On the other hand, Dong Xian, who was stationed in Changxi, and the Fifth School Army stationed in Jianyang, began to be impatient.

Liu Xiu didn't send troops to attack for a long time, so he was so wasted, what did he want to do?

At this time, Dong Xian had not yet completely figured out Liu Xiu's intentions.

Seven days passed in peace and quiet, Dong Xian's spies in Xinyang reported one after another, and the Fifth School Army stationed in Xinyang recently looted the granaries and money vaults in the city, and in addition, many people in the city were also robbed by the Fifth School Army.

Seeing these handbooks, Dong Xian was so angry that he couldn't change his eating, the group of villains of the Fifth School Army really went wherever they went, where they did evil, they had obviously given them 10,000 gold, and they even took advantage of being stationed in Jianyang to loot the city.

Dong Xian immediately sent a letter to the Fifth School Army, reprimanding the Five School Army for their viciousness in Jianyang.

Soon, the leader of the Fifth School Army sent Dong Xian a reply, and instead of giving any explanation for what the Fifth School Army did in Jianyang, he also asked Dong Xian for 50,000 stone of grain.

The reason for the leader of the five schools army is also very sufficient, we are here in Jianyang, but to help you Dong Xian fight, and fight hard with the Han army, the rations of the brothers in the whole army, no matter how you calculate it, should also be paid by you Dong Xian.

After receiving this reply, Dong Xian's nose was almost crooked.

He had seen the brazen, but he had never seen such a brazen and insatiable one as the Fifth Colonel.

The agreement between himself and the five school troops was only 30,000 gold, and as for other conditions, he never agreed.

The army of the five schools can use 30,000 gold to buy food, and now they haven't fought a single battle, but they are calculating to leave all the money to buy food and let themselves come out, why?

There is no such reason! Not to mention that Dong Xian doesn't want to be the boss of this injustice, even if he wants to send food to the Fifth School Army, there is not so much food hoarded in Changxi City, and now even the soldiers under his command have changed from three meals a day to two meals a day, where is there any excess food to send to the Fifth School Army.

Dong Xian immediately wrote a reply to the Fifth School Army, sternly rejecting the Fifth School Army's request for food, and also reprimanding it.

Next, Dong Xian and the Fifth School Army exchanged letters frequently, in short, the content of the dispute between the two sides mainly revolved around food.

The fifth school army said that now that his food has been almost consumed, Dong Xian must send food to Jianyang immediately.

Dong Xian said that he only agreed to give 30,000 gold to the Fifth School Army, and as for food, he would not give it to the Fifth School Army.

In this way, the two sides spent more than ten days in the letters you exchanged with me.

Now, there is still hoarded food in Changxi City, and the five school troops in Jianyang are really about to eat up the food.

As for Jianyang City, wherever it can be looted, the five school soldiers have already ransacked it, and they can't wait to empty out the mouse holes, but even so, the food is still insufficient.

The only food left in the army was enough for three days.

As a last resort, the leader of the Fifth School Army sent a letter to Dong Xian again, warning Dong Xian that if he did not send food to Jianyang again, he would lead the Fifth School Army to evacuate Jianyang.

Dong Xian thought that this was another dispute between the Fifth School Army and himself, so he didn't take it to heart at all, and in his reply, he also warned the Fifth School Army that once they evacuated Jianyang, he would not give them the remaining 20,000 gold anyway.

Gold, of course, the five school troops want it, but the problem is that now they are all dying, and the whole army is about to run out of food.

Dong Xian refused to send food over, did they stay in Jianyang and wait for death for the remaining 20,000 gold?

For Dong Xian, the Fifth School Army was very disappointed, and the leaders of the Fifth School Army discussed and simply withdrew, this battle could no longer be fought.

All along, they have survived by plundering and looting everywhere, and now they are stationed in Jianyang, sitting on empty food, and if they don't go out to loot, they will really be starved to death.

When their own grain and grass were almost exhausted, and they couldn't get food from Dong Xian, the army of the five schools had no choice but to evacuate Jianyang and go all the way south.

The news of the withdrawal of the Fifth School Army from Jianyang reached Xinyang and Changxi almost immediately.

After Dong Xian heard this, he couldn't help but stand up, looking at the soldiers who came to report the news, he couldn't believe his ears.

He asked, "What did you say?"

The Fifth School Army evacuated Jianyang? ”

"Yes! King! ”

"This ...... How is this possible? ”

The Fifth School Army, which has always been greedy for money, can give up 20,000 gold and evacuate Jianyang?

Dong Xian stared at the messenger soldier and asked word by word, "What you said is true?" ”

"Big ...... King, the Fifth School Army did evacuate Jianyang, and the villain saw it with his own eyes! ”

"They...... Where did they all go? ”

Dong Xian squeezed out a sentence from between his teeth.

"The Fifth School Army went south, where exactly did it go, the villain doesn't know."

The soldier said cautiously.

Dong Xian stomped his feet fiercely, gritted his teeth and said, "Words are not believed!" It's all a bunch of untrustworthy villains! ”

The Fifth School Army suddenly withdrew from Jianyang, and the soldiers of Dong Xianjun in Changxi City panicked, you must know that the Fifth School Army is their strong foreign aid, and it is precisely because of the containment of the Fifth School Army that the Han Army does not dare to attack Changxi.

Now that the Fifth School Army is gone, what will they do?

Once the Han army attacks in a big way, who can help them contain and flank the Han army?

Compared with the panicked Dong Xianjun, the Han army who heard the news was greatly boosted, and the spies rode fast horses, galloping wildly in the camp, while shouting loudly: "The Fifth School Army has withdrawn!" The Fifth School Army evacuated Jianyang! ”

Hearing the shouts of the spies, many soldiers ran out of the tents shirtless, and their expressions were both surprised and delighted.

The Han army camp, the Chinese army tent.

The spies came to the front of the Chinese military tent, turned over and dismounted, took three steps into two steps, entered the camp tent, and knelt down to Liu Xiu, who was sitting in the center, and said with excitement on his face: "Report to Your Majesty, the five school troops have evacuated Jianyang!" ”

When the generals in the camp heard this, they were first surprised, and then they all showed ecstasy.

Wu Han hurriedly approached the spy and asked, "Is this true?" ”

"Returning to Da Sima, it's true!"

Wu Han blinked, slapped his face violently, turned around and smiled at Liu Xiu: "Your Majesty, God help me big man, God help me big man!" The Fifth School Army has withdrawn from Jianyang, and now our army can attack Changyu in a big way! ”

Gai Yan didn't say a word, he intervened in Liu Xiu's salute, and said loudly: "Your Majesty, attack Chang, Weichen is willing to lead the troops to take the lead!" ”

As soon as his words fell, Wang Liang, Wang Chang, Ma Wu, and Wang Ba generals came out one after another, intervened in the salute, and said in unison: "Your Majesty, Weichen is willing to take the lead!" ”

Liu Xiu looked at the people who took the initiative to invite Ying, smiled slightly, and said, "All the generals can take the lead!" In the battle of Changshu, the soldiers of our army can be besieged from all sides, and within three days, we must break through the defense of Changshu City! ”

All the generals intervened in unison and responded loudly: "Weichen obeys the order!" ”

Liu Xiu said: "The generals go back to prepare for the war, and tomorrow, our army will be worried!" ”

Everyone was excited and excited to get out of the Chinese military tent.

Twenty days ago, Liu Xiu said that his soldiers would rest in Xinyang, and the enemy army itself would show its defeat, but they still didn't believe it.

Even Wu Han couldn't help but sigh: "Your Majesty is like a god with soldiers, and he is good at figuring out people's hearts!" ”

In Wu Han's opinion, if Liu Xiu is not the Son of Heaven, but a minister in the same palace as himself, then the title of Da Sima may be difficult to fall on his head, and it must be Liu Xiu's.

Liu Xiu led the troops to fight is indeed powerful, not to mention the brilliant achievements before he became emperor, even after he became emperor, he has never been defeated in several imperial expeditions, and he has won many battles and established the territory of the Han Dynasty.